Comments on: 2001 – Pale Horse Coming

By: Gord Horton

Gord Horton — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 16:43:40 +0000

A classic! I kept counting pages down to the end, staving off the moment it would end- the sign of a great book. Unforgettable characters, amazing plot scheme, violence, humour, a moral that is driven home by the unlikeliest of sources, considering the times and talk.

By: steembot

steembot — Sun, 17 Apr 2011 00:51:41 +0000

“Pale Horse Coming” was my favorite book about Earl Swagger; does a great job of showing how far this man will go for his friends. Would that we all had a buddy like that to have our back.

By: Count Stagger

Count Stagger — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 19:29:46 +0000

This was just a gripping novel, that I raced through. Hunter obviously had a great time thinking up new indignities to put poor old Earl through – and the reader has a great time reading about it. No other writer can do action like Hunter and I think that this is one of his best examples of it. The prison was truly hellish yet believable in the context of where and when it was located. You just couldn’t wait for the bad guys to get their come-uppance.

As regards casting, I always imagine a slightly older and beat-up Nathan Fillion (Firefly) as Earl, while I think Kevin Bacon or Chris Cooper could play Bob Lee.

By: Kathy Malon

Kathy Malon — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 00:19:37 +0000

Finished Pale Horse last week and my husband is reading it right now. I go through a LOT of books and was delighted to discover Stephen Hunter last year. We read Hot Springs first. Bob Lee and Earl are my heroes. Another comment felt the old gunmen weren’t realistic but I love it! Those kind of guys….how could they pass it up. I also think Tommy Lee Jones would be an excellent Earl Swagger for a movie.

To Mr. Hunter,keep writing sir. You’ve got a lot of fans out there.

By: Jeremy Robertson

Jeremy Robertson — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 21:14:24 +0000

Just finished reading Pale Horse Coming and I must say that this has to be one of my favorite Stephen Hunter books of the seven or eight that I have read. This was the third Hunter book that I have read in the past three weeks, Hot Springs and Time To Hunt were the other two. I have to say that Earl Swagger is a hell of a character and even though the movies are never as good as the books, I would love to see Earl on the big screen. Another Bob Lee movie wouldn’t be to bad either.

By: Charlie Griffin

Charlie Griffin — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 04:21:58 +0000

I have only read two of Mr. Hunter’s books so far, but will read them all. I loved “Dirty White Boys!” I really liked “Pale Horse Coming” almost as much until he decided that Earl was going to bring in old gunmen. I know a lot of people found that interesting, but I found it not at all believable. It’s still a good book, but he lost me during the period of the book, in which Earl was recruiting his team. I would have found the use of a team made up of men from Earl’s military background much more realistic. The book just took a turn for a lack of seriousness that frankly I found disappointing. It was similar to the way an action movie will sprinkle in comic relief for reasons that I again don’t understand. For me the story was just too serious and too intense to add in “comic relief.” Sorry Stephen! I’m still going to read every word you have written!

By: Push McCann

Push McCann — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 02:04:00 +0000

Having read several of the series it was nice to see a novel set in my home stomping grounds. Granted its fiction, but the discriptions of the terrain and people were spot on. I well remember how things were back in the early sixties and other than the movieish drama of the costuming in the book the men acted much as most decent men would have in those days. Having been raised up with a trigger under my finger most of my life I could relate to the the shooters alot especially those that had to put food on the table and had limited ammo. The best part of all of Mr. Hunters books to me is the Louie Lamour grammer that though not in the same context creates a very vivid but easy to read novel that promotes a style of Americanism that is seldom seen anymore. There are still small pockets of people in America that hold to the sort of values and liberties that are representative in this and other novels by Mr. Hunter.

By: tim warner

tim warner — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 15:18:36 +0000

I would really appreciate some advice on some books to read by someone as good as Stephen Hunter …fiction, relatively same genre

By: Kris

Kris — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 07:28:53 +0000

“Dirty White Boys” was my first Hunter book and is still my favorite, but, DAMN, is this one close. I blasted thru this novel during a day of jury duty (never got called) and just could not stop reading. The idea of getting some bad dudes together and set things right with lead is a hard scrabble fantasy and it works so well here. No one writes action and gunplay like Hunter!

By: Jim Rodgers

Jim Rodgers — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 23:33:00 +0000

I have read most of the Swagger books, and Pale Horse Coming is the best book I’ve read so far, but they’re all fantastic books. I think most men wake up in the morning wishing they could be Earl Swagger. He and Bob Lee Swagger are two of the greatest fictional characters ever. I know their time may soon come to an end, but I pray that they don’t. To my way of thinking, these are some of the greatest books ever written, and Mr. Hunter is a masterful writer and a true genius.